What are the four major zones in a corner?

All right, so we know that there are four major zones in a corner, starting from the straight line braking phase, going into the entry phase, where we are holding the brakes and turning, then going to the mid corner phase, and then going to the exit phase. Out of these four corner phases of the corners, we basically have a major goal in each of those zones. Now, you do, you do not think about it, because, of course, we drive subconsciously. And now, you know, we, I know we doing everything subconsciously. And even me, when I drive, I don’t think about these things. You know, I’m just like, I just try to push to the limits. And I’m not listening, oh, I’m not thinking, oh, there are four zones after. No, this is something that is just for theory and just for giving you more awareness and just giving you more knowledge, and, to be honest, more comprehension, which is going to create an advantage, an unfair advantage, over your competitors. It’s going to give you an easier understanding of how the kart behaves, and also, when you’re looking at data analysis, you’re basically going to be understanding issues more, yeah, basically sooner and and any with ease. Okay, so there are four phases, as I said, and what is the goal of the midcourt?

What is the goal of the mid corner phase?

Now, I think there is a goal for every major area. We already talked about the straight line braking. We talked about the entry phase. Now we talked about the exit phase. Let’s now see the mid corner phase. What is the goal of the mid corner phase? Now, if we were to plot an hypothetical line. And that’s not nice. What is that? An hypothetical hairpin?

So we arrive, okay, straight line breaking.

From here to here, we’re basically in a straight line breaking. So that’s our first phase. SB, like to call it.

Now we go into the entry phase until here, let’s say

where we’re holding the brakes until this, normally, actually, I think the entry phase, entry phase is not that long. It’s a bit less, just like holding the brakes a bit now we got the mid corner, which is like until here, before the exit start. I think it’s, you know, it’s not that it’s not that symmetric, you know, it’s not symmetric, as you would think, Oh, Alessio is say it’s symmetric. I should, supposed to be like, you know, entry from here, then x, then entry phase, and then like this, and then like that should be like, symmetric, you know, same as this and same as this. No, I don’t believe that’s like that. I believe that by the time you get on the gas, it’s already starting to get

it’s already starting to be the exit phase.

So for me, it’s like, yeah, you get on the gas to work like about here. So okay, let’s make this one. So a bit for me, the entry, yeah, you the exit starts here. Okay, so exit, and this the entry. That’s my take on it. So what is the goal of this nice little area here that we call mid let’s use the big dot, what is our goal here in our nice little area? What is our goal? Ha, so I have already told you that we have a goal for each of the zones. So I wish you already have seen the other lessons. I’m not spoiling anything for you. The goal for the the straight line breaking, it’s quite clear, all right. It’s to go from, let’s say, 100 kilometers an hour, so speed a to speed B, just like, okay, the speed B is you the minimum speed is going to be like, here. So not so the goal is to take the first initial chunk out of the speed, straight line braking as hard as possible. Of course, in a hyper remember, as late as possible. And just the goal of the straight line braking is just to maximize the acceleration, to stop the kart, deceleration, maximum, okay, maximum stopping power to basically it’s to stop. Your goal is to stop. Okay, in the straight line breaking, which, to be honest, is connected the entry. In the entry also want to stop and to get the first bit of rotation. So entry is, to be honest, is it has different kind of goals. But the goal is, for me, the turning point.

Turning Point, and

the final phase of stopping, okay, the final phase of the stopping, the exit is quite straightforward. You want to accelerate as best as we can, at the right time, not too early, not too late. We want to accelerate Exactly. The right time that it pushes us at the right place on the exit where we want to use the exit curve. Okay, so that’s our exit in a nutshell. And then we got the mid corner. Well, talking about the mid corner, you know we’re gonna we got the mid corner. So what is the whole goal of the mid corner? The mid corner goal is to pivot as quickly and as efficiently and as you know, fast as possible. So you want to pivot, which means to rotate, rotate the goddamn car. Basically, the car is like that. So let’s say the the this is the angle of the car at any given time. So in this moment, the car angle is like that, straight, then straight, then it started to turn a bit because we are final phase of the entry. Then it’s a bit like the grill go on the exit. We are like rotated already, and we are like that. So we just have to do a little bit of rotation still, but it’s almost all done. Here is where we do all the fun. It’s in the mid corner where we need to rotate the car as much as possible. Okay, it’s where the rotation happened. In the mid corner is where the rotation happened and the difficult. It’s where we make the highest amount of rotation. Through the corner. In entry, you make a tiny bit in exit, you make a tiny, tiny bit where in the braking, you don’t do any in the I mean straight line braking. Of course you are, if you like, unless there’s some very specific corner. In the mid corner you do the highest amount of rotation. That’s where you get the highest amount of rotation.

How do you rotate the kart in the mid corner?

And so your goal is to basically sense the speed, carry the speed to rotate the car, because there’s many ways to rotate the car with the steering wheel. Okay, remember that so you can rotate the car with steering wheel. You rotate the car. Remember with your speed, and you’re like, oh, actually, before that, let’s talk about the easy part with the pedals. So we know that if we hold the rate brake pedal more, okay, we’re going to rotate the kart more because, like you want to rotate the rear is going to come and we also create more pitch. And also with the throttle, throttle is the other way around. If you put the throttle, you make less rotation. Okay, so the pedals are because, of course, it’s a push. It’s gonna squat, and it’s gonna be so bad. Don’t do that, please. Then the other way to get the rotation, and we already mentioned that, is with the speed. So the more speed you carry, together with more brakes in trailing brakes into the corner, you just create more rotation. That’s just the way it goes. There’s more the weight transfer. There’s more rotation, all right. And yes, I mean, I wanted to say also, yeah, of course, with the setup. Because, of course, if the car has no, absolutely zero rotation from the kart. You know it’s going to be very hard, for sure, you still affect it with your steering, with the pillar, but of course, you will not be able to get anything if the setup is really bad. Of course the setup has to be right. So these are the four, the four, the four major ways, even though the best drivers given the same setup, so given the same setup which is locked, let’s say, if you were driving a fixed setup car, like in iRacing, the best way to rotate the kart in the mid corner, of course, is with car control. I mean, that’s at the end of the day. Car control goes hand in hand with speed. So car control, that’s very good, but the best way to rotate the car is not really with the steering wheel. Okay, of course, you need to use a tiny bit of steering wheel, but the best way to rotate the car is with your pedal, so with your with your braking, and with their speed, the more speed and the more brake you carry into the final phase of the mid corner, the more the car rotates. And of course, it’s not easier, because if you carry speed, and if you don’t use the brakes like that’s the difficult bit, because if you are carrying the speed but you’re not using the brakes, you’re gonna go straight and you’re gonna miss the corner, you’re gonna miss the apex, all right, if you carry the brakes, but you don’t have the speed, you’re gonna be too tight, like, you’re gonna be like, going too early into the corner, too slow into the corner. You feel like you have to go early on the gas, and then it’s pushing you out. And it’s like that. So the difficult bit is to do it together. But of course, you do these kind of things automatically. Things automatically. You don’t have to really think about it two times or, like, think about it consciously. This is all happening in going through you subconsciously, so you don’t have to think about but remember the mid corner goal is the rotation. Oops. Called also as pivot rotation. The mid corner is the rotation. Clear. That is your goal. You want the rotation, all right, if you can rotate the car as quickly and as efficiently as possible, in general, in this me in the slow corners, in the fast corners, in the mid corners, but mostly this is for the twisties, low corners, hairpins. You’re going to be a really fast racing driver, and you’re gonna, yeah, win a lot of races. But of course, it’s a skill you have to develop. And you know what speed is really closely related to car control, chi, chi. To have car control, you need to develop it. You need to keep trying. Need to keep pushing. You need to keep putting in the track time, and you develop the car control of the racing driver that’s going to stay with you forever. So, of course, keep that. And of course the speed sensing, you know, carrying the speed is a speed sensing, but it’s related to car control. It’s all kind of skills that you need to develop early on in your career, and you will just keep pushing. This doesn’t have to it’s not something you should really think about when you drive. It’s just gonna go back in the back of your mind is subconscious.

But remember that also you do data if you’re like, okay, in the mid corner, I’m too bad.

What is the issue?

Okay, I don’t have enough rotation. Is it coming from me? Is it coming from me and the setup, or is it coming only from the setup? All right, maybe there’s always something you can improve by going a bit deeper, but trying to get the rotation with the speed. But if you still do that and the car is not rotating, then you gotta do something on the setup. Remember that?